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Today, Fluther is proud to announce a major strategic shift toward becoming an answer-questioning site. “Question answering sites are a dime a dozen,” said Fluther CEO and co-founder Ben Finkel. “We wanted to do something really different—and this was the first idea that popped into my head.” “So many of our users have answers that […]
Put Fluther in your Dock 4:39 amHere at Fluther, we love our Macs. Now, if you have a Mac, you can add Fluther to your Dock using a nice little application developed by Todd Ditchendorf called Fluid. Fluid allows you to install Fluther as a separate Mac OS X application. This gives you faster access to Fluther and separates it from […]
Showing you Lurve 12:59 pmThe most common feature request is we get is the ability to see when some some has given you a “Great Answer!” We thought this was a “Great Idea!” (+5) and decided to create a page showing all the lurve you’ve received from the community. What is lurve, you ask? As Woody Allen put it: […]
You might have wondered why you’re required to enter topics when you ask a question. One reason is that we use them to form a weighted list, highlighting the most popular topics of Fluther.
“How’d they do that?” Correcting punctuation 7:48 amIn my last post, I announced a new feature that automatically corrects the punctuation of questions using “fancy computer logic”. I’d like to reveal some of that computer logic, in the first in a series of blog posts where we explore the technology that drives Fluther.
Fixing your lousy punctuation and capitalization 9:49 amMembers of Fluther’s grammar police will be happy to know that we’re making strides toward proper English. Fluther now applies some fancy computer logic to improve question formatting: The first word will be capitalized ALL CAPS will be converted to sentence-case Repeated punctuation will be unified Questions that omit punctuation will have a question mark appended You’ll be able […]